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rolltide101x said:
Scisca said:


Nah, it's not the primary reason. GamePad is a nice extra and is enticing to me, though obviously they messed up with the parts - Nintendo being Nintendo cheaped out on the parts, but fast development of the industry bit them in the behind, when everybody ditched this old tech and suddenly it became more expensive than newer, better tech, making the controller expensive.

The reason Wii U failed is cause it's too weak and has a unique architecture in a world that requires as much unity as possible to cut unnecessary costs.

Architecture is absolutely nothing to do with it and power was a VERY small factor. 

The reason it failed is because the extra cost from the gamepad, people viewing the gamepad as a gimmck, and terrible advertising.

 

Nobody is going to buy a Wii U for 300$ when you can get an Xbox One for 350$. If it would have been 250$ and 300$ day 1 and was sitting at 250$ with a game right now its sales would be doubled. (50$ price cut being from the gamepad)


Then I guess we have to agree to disagree. Every single 3rd party developer was complaining about Wii U using PowerPC architecture (thus making ports more difficult and expensive) and being so underpowered. I've decided to ditch the console the day Nintendo announced it and showed the specs - specs worthy of a 2008 console. Sorry Nintendo, I'm not going that route again, I want a quality console, hope you can get NX right.

Wii U was $300 when PS4 was $400 and Xbone was $500. Still got its ass kicked. The console would be cheaper if Nintendo wasn't so bloody cheap and used more modern parts in the GamePad. Not parts so old, that nobody uses them anymore and they have to pay extra to get anyone to take them out from a museum and copy.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.